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Microsoft published first-party throughput data for its internal PRAssistant AI code review tool, which ran across 5,000 internal repos, covered over 90% of pull requests and 600,000 PRs a month, and …

Proofpoint researchers have identified a novel exploit kit named BlueMoon that chains two Chromium-based browser flaws and one Microsoft Windows bug, and at least four espionage groups, most with susp…

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report finds that only 10% of media and entertainment workers qualify as Frontier Professionals, compared with 16% across industries and 28% in technology, whi…

Microsoft announced that its Microsoft Discovery Engine with CLIO (Cognitive Loop via In-Situ Optimization) achieved scores of 61.6% in health and medicine, 75.2% in physical sciences, and 64.6% in li…

AI data centers' environmental toll is already threatening human health and access to natural resources, according to a United Nations University report, which projects that by 2030 their water usage …

Microsoft has committed to ten safety and privacy principles for AI in schools, including a promise not to train models on student or educator data, in a contractually enforceable agreement with the A…

Red Hat AI 3.5, announced today, adds governance, safety, and observability features, including the general availability of EvalHub, a framework for benchmarking and certifying AI application safety. …

The American Federation of Teachers announced an agreement with Microsoft on Wednesday that prohibits the tech company from using student and teacher data to train its AI models and from tracking stud…

Google committed €13 billion to AI infrastructure in Finland, its largest single capital deployment in Europe, and signed a 22-year power purchase agreement with Fortum for output from the Loviisa nuc…

Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment workers have ratified their first union contract with parent company Microsoft, adding protections on generative AI use, crediting, remote work, and layoffs. The co…

The Authors Guild and 13 co-plaintiff authors, including David Baldacci, John Grisham, and George R.R. Martin, have filed a motion for summary judgment in their consolidated copyright case against Ope…

Microsoft announced on Wednesday a legally enforceable 'National AI Safety & Privacy Standard' that gives every U.S. school district controls over how AI products handle student data, with protections…

Nearly 1,900 Blizzard Entertainment employees are now covered by their first union contract, announced by the Communications Workers of America after two years of bargaining with Microsoft. The agreem…

General Robotics launched Auto-Engineering for its GRID platform on September 9, using software agents to assemble and debug robot deployments, reducing a dual-arm lab workflow from a month to four ho…

The Communications Workers of America announced that nearly 1,900 workers across Blizzard have ratified a union contract securing wage increases, a hybrid workweek with two remote days, remote work an…

Microsoft agreed to a set of ten safety and privacy principles for AI in schools with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its New York City affiliate the United Federation of Teachers (UFT),…

Union workers at Blizzard, a Microsoft subsidiary, ratified a historic contract covering 1,900 employees, which includes guardrails around generative AI usage, layoff protections, and remote and hybri…

Microsoft's AI-driven vulnerability detection led to a record-breaking Patch Tuesday, addressing 974 security flaws, the largest number in the company's history. The update includes fixes for multiple…

X. Eyee, a partner at Offline Research and former engineering lead at Google and Microsoft, said on CNBC that the AI industry's celebration of artificial general intelligence uses a definition that 'l…

Microsoft and the American Federation of Teachers announced the National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for Schools, a first-of-a-kind agreement that Microsoft said will make its protections available t…